Press releases

Optical cochlear implants promise to improve the restoration of hearing in hearing loss and deafness. A Göttingen team of hearing researchers around Antoine Huet have now defined for the first time the biologically plausible range of stimulation parameters for the use of the optical cochlea implant in humans. Published in

Auditory neuroscientist of the University Medical Center Göttingen receives additional funding by the European Research Council. His project “OptoWave” concentrates on optimizing the optical cochlear implant for the application in hearing impaired people. (mbexc/umg) Tobias Moser, MD, Director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Göttingen

Expert in cryo-electron microscopy at the University Medical Center Göttingen receives Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council to investigate the membrane architecture of nerve cells and its pathological alterations in axonopathies. (mbexc/umg) Prof. Dr. Rubén Fernández Busnadiego from the Institute for Neuropathology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG)

Prof. Dr. Peter Rehling, cell biochemist at the University Medical Center Göttingen recives for the second time an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). (umg/mbexc) Prof. Dr. Peter Rehling, Director of the Institute of Cellular Biochemistry at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), spokesperson of the Göttingen Collaborative

The state of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation approve funding for scientists of the UMG and the MBExC Cluster of Excellence of about 1 milion euros of the “SPRUNG” (formerly: “Niedersächsisches Vorab”) for the development of the optical cochlear implant for the restoration of hearing in humans. (umg/mbexc) Hearing

The association honors the Nobel laureate in chemistry and director of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences in Göttingen for his special services to science. Admission to the Order is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on researchers or artists in Germany. In addition

New technology platform combines high-throughput recordings of cellular electrophysiology of isolated cardiomyocytes and neurons and their optical stimulation with light. Electrical activity is one of the most important common features of the heart and the brain. The goal of the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence “Multiscale Bioimaging: From Molecular Machines to

Scientists at the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience, UMG, the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and the abberior Instruments GmbH apply high-resolution 3D-MINFLUX technology for precise 3D representation of the molecular organization in the active zone of rod photoreceptor cells. Published in Science Advances. (umg/mbexc) For the processing of sensory

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Spain achieve, for the first time, in vivo light-activated auditory stimulation without the need for genetic manipulation. This new light-controlled drug, capable of triggering the neural pathways involved in hearing, can contribute to improving

Experts from the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, summarize 20 years of Junctophilin research, new molecular analyses, and the role of Junctophilins in the development of human diseases in a comprehensive in-depth review article. Published with Spotlight Cover in the renowned journal